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most citedAlgorithms for Adaptive Experiments that Trade-off Statistical Analysis with Reward: Combining Uniform Random Assignment and Reward Maximization

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stat.ME2026

Nash Equilibrium Individualized Treatment Regimes under Network Interference

Junwen Xia, Jingxiao Zhang, Dehan Kong

Network interference creates a fundamental tension in optimal individualized treatment regime learning: maximizing overall population outcomes may come at the expense of some indiv…

stat.AP2026

A Statistically Reliable Optimization Framework for Bandit Experiments in Scientific Discovery

Tong Li, Travis Mandel, Goldie Phillips +4

Scientific experimentation is largely driven by statistical hypothesis testing to determine significant differences in interventions. Traditionally, experimenters allocate samples…

stat.ML2026

RIE-Greedy: Regularization-Induced Exploration for Contextual Bandits

Tong Li, Thiago de Queiroz Casanova, Eric M. Schwartz +3

Real-world contextual bandit problems with complex reward models are often tackled with iteratively trained models, such as boosting trees. However, it is difficult to directly app…

math.ST2025

Convergence and Optimality of the EM Algorithm Under Multi-Component Gaussian Mixture Models

Xin Bing, Dehan Kong, Bingqing Li

Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) are fundamental statistical tools for modeling heterogeneous data. Due to the nonconcavity of the likelihood function, the Expectation-Maximization (…

stat.ME2025

Successive classification learning for estimating quantile optimal treatment regimes

Junwen Xia, Jingxiao Zhang, Dehan Kong

Quantile optimal treatment regimes (OTRs) aim to assign treatments that maximize a specified quantile of patients' outcomes. Compared to treatment regimes that target the mean outc…

stat.ME2025

Simultaneous hypothesis testing for comparing many functional means

Colin Decker, Dehan Kong, Stanislav Volgushev

Data with multiple functional recordings at each observational unit are increasingly common in various fields including medical imaging and environmental sciences. To conduct infer…

stat.AP2025

Modeling Cell Developmental Trajectory using Multinomial Unbalanced Optimal Transport

Junhao Zhu, Kevin Zhang, Zhaolei Zhang +1

Single-cell trajectory analysis aims to reconstruct the biological developmental processes of cells as they evolve over time, leveraging temporal correlations in gene expression. D…

stat.ME2024

Stationarity of Manifold Time Series

Junhao Zhu, Dehan Kong, Zhaolei Zhang +1

In modern interdisciplinary research, manifold time series data have been garnering more attention. A critical question in analyzing such data is ``stationarity'', which reflects t…

stat.AP2024

LLOT: application of Laplacian Linear Optimal Transport in spatial transcriptome reconstruction

Junhao Zhu, Kevin Zhang, Dehan Kong +1

Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) allows transcriptional profiling, and cell-type annotation of individual cells. However, sample preparation in typical scRNA-seq experiments…

cs.LG2021★ 3 cited

Algorithms for Adaptive Experiments that Trade-off Statistical Analysis with Reward: Combining Uniform Random Assignment and Reward Maximization

Tong Li, Jacob Nogas, Haochen Song +8

Traditional randomized A/B experiments assign arms with uniform random (UR) probability, such as 50/50 assignment to two versions of a website to discover whether one version engag…